Myers Briggs Personality Types Model Helps To Make Your Career Decisions!
Myers-Briggs personality types model not only works out your behavioral preferences but also correlates them with different careers. Whether you are analyzing your career options or starting anew, there is no alternative for this psychological instrument. The sixteen personality types, their descriptions and association with different careers guide you to analyze:
1- Your choice of careers,
2- Your selected career vis-à-vis your Myers Briggs personality types,
3- Précised method to avoid frustrating years in a wrong business, and
4- Your decision to change your current job for another.
Myers Briggs Personality Types and Development of Personality Functions...
Myers-Briggs personality types are often misunderstood. Some think that it identifies those personality traits which are built-in and can neither be developed nor be changed. On the same fallacy some organizations have been using sixteen personality tests as sole selection criteria.
The professionally built Myers-Briggs personality tests theory admits development personality functions. Education, working environment and cultural bounds help you to develop various personality traits. Even Carl Jung admits that extreme types can only be found in lunatic asylums.
W. Harold Grant mentions six phases of behavioral development of sixteen personality types. He says that human beings are born with certain identifiable built-in preferences. However, they grow these preferences and non-preferences, throughout their lives. His six phases are:
1. 0-6 years (No clear type yet)
2. 6-12 years (Development of dominant primary behaviors)
3. 12-20 years (Development of supporting auxiliary behaviors)
4. 20-35 years (Focusing upon both types of behaviors while starting with opposite functions.)
5. 35-50 years (Maximum development of all kinds of behaviors.)
6. From 50 onward (Strengthening of fully developed functions.)
Primary Dominant Behaviors
There are four dominant primary behaviors of Myers-Briggs personality types model; extroversion vs. introversion and sensing vs. intuition. People start showing their extroversion or introversion from their early childhood. They refine their perception system a bit later.
Auxiliary Supporting Behaviors
These four behaviors; thinking vs. feeling and judging vs. feeling, are considered auxiliary for Myers-Briggs personality types. Your systems to decide and organize the things support your primary behaviors.
Opposite Behaviors
‘Opposite behaviors’ do not mean other side of the midnight…
…they are simply those behaviors which you express under circumstances but don’t feel comfortable with. It is your self-control and learning capability that rub out that discomfort. Your working environment may catch your anger but you can develop a peaceful mind by enlarging your picture.
A balanced personality can never be an extreme Myers-Briggs Type...
That’s why some psychologists prefer to express types not as ESTJ, INFJ and ISTP but as EiSnTfJp, IeNsFtJp and IeSnTfPj types. They theorize that small letters convey those behaviors which you are not comfortable with but you can express them too.
They include INTJ, INTP, ENTJ and ENTP personality types. In temperament types, they are considered analytical personality types. They are also called rational or knowledge seekers.
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They include ISTP, ISFP, ESTP and ESFP personality types. In temperament types they are collectively called the artisan or action seekers.
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The brief descriptions of Myers-Briggs personality types and associated careers are given in the light of Carl Jung's
theory of types and the later developments. However, like any other psychological instrument, they are subject to error. There is no guarantee that any of the description or careers shall be suitable to your personality. It is advisable to take them an opening for your big picture.
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